"It was that or let Starscream spend the next few millennia telling his brave new Cybertron what a blameless imbecile I was," Megatron adds, perhaps just slightly... defensively? Like he doesn't want Bumblebee to disapprove too hard? We will never speak of this

That second remark gets a quiet scoff, though: "I won't pretend the thought hasn't crossed my mind that Optimus might have intended this as my punishment all along," he says. "It has been... quite the experience."